India 277-9 in 41.3 overs: Match over with Ishant and Shami at the crease. NZ won the second ODI by 15 runs.
India 275-9 in 41.1 overs: Bhuvi holes out to deep to Nathan McCullum off Anderson's bowling. Bhuvi falls for 11.
India 265-8 in 40.3 overs: Ashwin goes for the aerial route, but finds fielder Guptill at square. Southee is the bowler. Ashwin was out for five.
India 259-7 in 39.4 overs: Jadeja is bowled by Anderson, looking for some quick runs. Jadeja falls for 12.
India 257-6 in 39.1 overs: Dhoni attempts a big hit, but gets a top edge, is taken by Williamson off Anderson's bowling. Dhoni made 56.
India 257-5 in 39 overs: Dhoni reaches his 50 off just 42 balls with 7 fours and 1 six. India needs 41 rns to win.
India 247-5 in 38 overs: Dhoni batting on 48, Jadeja on 9. India needs 50 off 24 balls.
India 226-5 in 36.1 overs: Raina goes for a big hit, but holes out to Southee at deep square leg for 35. He faced 22 balls for his 35 with the help of 6 fours. Mills was the bowler.
India 216-4 in 35 overs: Dhoni is batting on 32, Rahane on 30. India needs some big hits to get to the winning score.
India 190-4 in 32 overs: Dhoni is batting on 23 not out. Raina gives him company on 13.
India 164-3 in 29.4 overs: Kohli attempts to go for a big hit, but holes out to mid on for 78 off Southee's bowling.
India 158-3 in 29 overs: Kohli is going strong on 73 not out. Dhoni gives company at 11 not out.
India 127-3 in 23.4 overs: Rahane goes for a pull shot off a short ball but edges it behind to keeper Ronchi for 36 off McClenaghan's bowling.
India 123-2 in 22.3 overs: Kohli hits another 50 off 41 balls with five 4s and 1 six. Rahane gives him company with 35 not out.
India 107-2 in 21 overs: Kohli is going strong on 38, while Rahane is batting on 32.
India 74-2 in 15.6 overs: Kohli and Rahane rebuild innings after India lost openers early. Kohli is batting on 29, Rahane on 11.
India 37-2 in 9.5 overs: Sharma gives a catch behind to keeper Ronchi off Southee's bowling for 20.
India 22-1 in 7.4 overs: Dhawan goes for a big hit, but exposes his stumps and is out bowled to Southee for 12.
India 10-0 in 5 overs: India begins on a slow note, trying to preserve wickets. Dhawan 4 not out, Sharma batting on 6.
India has been set a revised target of 297 in 42 overs according to Duckworth-Lewis method.
NZ 271/7 in 42 overs: Ronchi 18 and Mills 2 were at the crease when innings folded up.
NZ 252/7 in 40.1 overs: Nathan McCullum misses a full-length delivery from Bhuvi and falls for a run. Ronchi and Mills are there at the crease.
NZ 251/6 in 39.4 overs: Shami gets Taylor to edge one delivery behind to keeper Dhoni for 57. Just couple of overs left.
NZ 250/5 in 39.2 overs: McCullum gives a simple return catch to Shami for a golden duck.
NZ 248/4 in 38.5 overs: Anderson falls for an entertaining 44 off just 17 balls with 5 sixes and 2 fours. NZ is in total command.
NZ 232/3 in 38 overs: Anderson is particularly severe on Indian bowlers, especially on Ashwin. Anderson batting on 31 off 13 balls. Taylor batting on 54. NZ made 32 runs in last two overs.
NZ 200/3 in 36 overs: NZ looks to accelerate as match has been reduced to 42 overs. Taylor is batting on 38, while Anderson is batting on 16.
NZ 174/3 in 34.1 overs: Williamson steps out to hit a delivery from Ravindra Jadeja out of the park, but misses it completely. Dhoni completes a routine stumping. Williamson falls for 77.
Rain has stopped, match has been revised to 42 overs per side.
Looks like it has started to rain again and it is almost certain that we will lose overs in the match. Covers are back on the ground.
The covers are being removed and we are hopeful for a start.
News just coming in that the weather has cleared up in Hamilton and we are looking good for play to resume in a short while.
NZ 170/2 in 33.2 overs: Another drizzle halts play. Williamson is batting on 76, Taylor on 22.
NZ 153/2 in 30 overs: India stops the flow of runs a bit, conceding only 17 in last 4 overs. Williamson batting on 68, Taylor batting on 18.
NZ 136/2 in 26 overs: Williamson is leading the charge with a brilliant 59. Taylor gives him company on 11. NZ looks to post a biNZ 114/2 in 20.5 overs: Guptill goes for a sweep, but gets a top edge, Shami at short fine leg completes an easy catch. Guptill falls for 44.
NZ 101/1 in 18 overs: Match resumes, NZ batsmen take control of the match. Williamson and Guptill going strong on 38, 41 respectively.
NZ 98/1 in 17 overs: A slight drizzle has stopped the match. Covers are on the pitch.
NZ 92/1 in 16 overs: NZ are off good start. Williamson is batting on 35, Guptill is batting well on 35. Indian bowlers fail to make a mark.
At the end of 10 overs New Zealand are 54/1.
NZ 25/1 after 5.2 overs: Shami pitches it short and Ryder tring to upper cut the ball gets a bottom edge and Dhoni makes no mistake behind the stumps. New Zealand loses their first wicket. Shami gets his first of the match.
At the end of 5 overs New Zealand are 21/0.
Martin Guptill and Jesse Ryder are the two openers out there in the middle. Bhuvneshwar Kumar to start the proceedings with the new ball.
The forecast is not good for the match as it is expected to rain late in the afternoon. D/W might come into play during the second innings of the match.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Here is a look at both the teams:
India: S Dhawan, RG Sharma, V Kohli, SK Raina, AM Rahane, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, B Kumar, I Sharma, Mohammed Shami.
New Zealand: MJ Guptill, JD Ryder, KS Williamson, LRPL Taylor, BB McCullum*, CJ Anderson, L Ronchi†, NL McCullum, KD Mills, TG Southee, MJ McClenaghan.
Match Preview:
Indian batting up for another test against spirited Kiwis
Hamilton: Handed a shock defeat in the opening match, world number one India would look to plug their batting loopholes when they square off against a gutsy New Zealand in the second cricket one-dayer here tomorrow.
Chasing a formidable 293 in the opening game in Napier, India seemed on track for a comfortable win before a middle-order collapse gutted them against the world number 8 home team.
What lay exposed was India's over-reliance on a certain Virat Kohli, left standing tall amid ruins with a sparkling hundred. But Suresh Raina's form has been a big concern, while the two openers Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma have not given India the flourishing start expected of them.
Also, India's bowling will have to be a lot sharper in the coming matches given that the home batsmen negotiated the visiting attack without much difficulty in the series-opener.
With pacer Ishant Sharma and off-spinner R Ashwin not making much of an impression in overseas conditions, it remains to be seen whether the team management will consider making changes to the bowling line-up.
At Seddon Park tomorrow, the visitors would be hoping for an encore from Kohli and better contributions from others in the line-up.
It is no secret that the team's fortunes are heavily dependent on Kohli's bat. His hundred the other day was his 18th overall in just 126 matches, with another 28 fifties to boot.
It is important to note that out of the 46 times he has scored a half-century or more, India finished victorious in 32 matches.
Furthermore, in 24 games out of this small set, the team batted second and Kohli's affinity for run-chases is only too well known. He scored his 12th hundred in an ODI chase on Sunday, 11 of which in the past have resulted in victories.
The worrying bit in these statistics is that 14 of those 32 victories -- inclusive of nine hundreds by Kohli -- for India have come in the last two years, while the rest 18 were recorded in his first four years of playing ODI cricket since he made his debut in August 2008.
This highlights the ever-increasing dependency of the batting line-up on Kohli and with just one year to go for the ODI World Cup in Australia-New Zealand, that is a worrisome thought.
Perhaps, it starts at the top of the order. Rohit Sharma's scores in three ODIs in South Africa and New Zealand so far have been 18, 19 and 3.
Shikhar Dhawan's scores in the same matches have been 12, 0 and 32. Their best partnership during this time is 15 runs, put up in Napier, while together they scored 14 and 10 in Johannesburg and Durban. India have lost all three matches.
Compare this with their brilliant run last year until the West Indies series at home when they put up 1247 runs in 22 matches at an average of 59.38 helping the team win on 16 instances.
The most famous ones were in the 2013 Champions Trophy (in England) when they scored 127, 101, 58, 77 and 19 in five matches.
Clearly they have the ability to score good runs despite conditions favouring bowlers, just that they have been out-of-touch of late.
That it has happened at the same time for both of them heaps the onus on Kohli and in turn puts greater pressure on the middle order.
This is where the problem gets compounded since the number four and five batsmen haven't really contributed much to the Indian cause.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was vocal about this aspect after defeat in the first ODI on this tour, blaming the middle order for "inconsistency" and affecting the lower middle order's ability to chase down targets.
The team's think-tank has experimented with quite a few names for the middle order in 2013, especially these two slots at number four and five, with Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu, Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay, Kohli and Dhoni himself having batted there.
The first five names have featured most regularly in the middle order (Vijay batted lower down for the injured Dhoni in West Indies) and from among them the highest individual score contributed throughout 2013 was 89 not out by Raina against England way back in January 2013.
Since then, his form has deteriorated for the worse with only 770 runs in 34 matches at an average of 35.
Karthik (255 runs in 15 matches at 31.87) was dropped after some ordinary outings in West Indies and Zimbabwe, and Yuvraj Singh (276 runs in 18 matches at 19.71) struggled on either side of the Champions Trophy, failing in his two comebacks within one calendar year.
These three batsmen have been the major culprits for a poor showing by the middle order, with Rahane (113 runs at 18.83) and Rayudu (101 runs at 50.50) have only had a limited-run so far.
For a long time, the Indian team management has been worrying about its bowling resources in the limited-overs format.
But the harsh reality at present is that they need to focus on finding batsmen who can contribute to the team's cause, particularly while playing overseas considering the World Cup in 12 months' time.
Any concerns, whether about the spinners or the fast bowling combination, can wait until then as without sorting out his team's traditional strength, batting, Dhoni will not be able to plan ahead.
Meanwhile, for Brendon McCullum, there are fewer worries having taken an early lead in the series. If at all, they need only to focus on not taking the visitors lightly, who, on paper atleast, are a much stronger unit than the hosts.
The more pressing concern is about replacing 21-year-old fast bowler Adam Milne in the playing XI after he was sidelined from the rest of the series with a torn abdominal muscle.
While 26-year-old medium pacer Hamish Bennett has taken his place in the squad, Kyle Mills is expected to play instead.
Hamilton has witnessed consistent rain for the two days leading up to this second ODI and pitch curator Andrew Brown believed that "the under-cover pitch will have something in it for the bowlers."
He was also of the opinion that should the rain stay away tomorrow, there is every chance that batsmen will make merry, much like the last ODI played here wherein West Indies scored 363/4 in fifty overs.
Team India will be hoping for the latter, both from the weather and its much vaunted batsmen.
Teams (from):
India: MS Dhoni (captain & wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Stuart Binny, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammad Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishwar Pandey, Varun Aaron, Amit Mishra.
New Zealand: Brendon McCullum (capt), Corey Anderson, Martin Guptill, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, James Neesham, Luke Ronchi (wk), Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson, Hamish Bennett.
